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September 1999

Thursday, 30. September 1999

Wednesday, 29. September 1999

Tuesday, 28. September 1999

Monday, 27. September 1999

  • Archaic Ruins interviewed Neill Corlett, author of StarScream and the Multi Gauntlet emulator! Read it here!

  • Arcade Roms from Japan released "Kaitei Daisensou" (Irem, 1993), the japanese version of "In the Hunt"!

  • IvilDed added some news on Impact to his Page! You can take a look at a few pictures of battle Arena Toshinden 2 running on Impact!

Sunday, 26. September 1999

  • There is some speculation about progress being made in CPS2 emulation because of this page but you should read this messageboard post by Dutch which helps to clear some things up!

Saturday, 25. September 1999

  • The MAME Work-in-Progress page has been updated with news of the last 2 days with screenshots of the M92 Irem games and MCR games like Arch Rivals! Again thanks to Brian Troha for the news!

  • The MAME32 team released MAME32 v0.36 beta 5 which is now in sync with the DOS port! Thanks to Brian A. Troha and John Hardy for the news!

  • I replaced the Space War overlay artwork file for MAME with a new version straight from Nathan Strums homepage!

  • Pugsy updated his cheat database for MAME, it now contains 17726 cheats for 1664 games!

  • Retrogames posted some pictures from another rumoured NeoGeo game called "Ninja Sho"! Can anybody confirm this?

  • Dith released another batch of "enhanced" MAME samples a few days ago, thanks to Retrogamesfor the news!

Friday, 24. September 1999

  • M92 games in MAME? Yummy! :-)

  • RS posted some pictures of a NeoGeo game called "Warlords of the Fates" with appeared in an issue of a NeoGeo game megazine. It is everyones guess right now if this game was has actually been produced or not!

  • You can now download the French version of MacMAME v0.36b5 from the official MacMAME homepage!

  • There is a new MAME audit utility around called ckmame v0.4 by Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner! You can use it with MAME, MAME32 and xMAME but I had no time yet to test it myself.

Thursday, 23. September 1999

  • Simon Sweetman released v1.2 of his excellent Gauntlet Screensaver for Windows! These are the new features:

    • Added Grunts
    • Added Demons
    • Shot potions now affect monsters and generators
    • Potions now only affect monsters and generators that are on screen
    • Only ghosts and bones that are on screen affect adventurer moral
    • Level continues 1.5 seconds after all adventurers have died/exited
    • Reduced instance of players standing on top of generators when fighting them. Still occurs on slower machines and needs some more work
    • Fixed jerky bounce when players strike edge of playfield at a sharp angle
    • Corrected adventurer shots not working when near edge of playfield
    • Renamed this file to Gauntlet.txt

  • Gridle added MAME Work-in-Progress news from the last 6 days with very interesting screenshots!

  • The CPS1 patch team released a new version of their patch for Forgotten Worlds v0.4 with these features:

    • Fixed a bug so now you can install from any directory from any drive to any directory in any drive
    • Rewritten RSWAPFW to support Lost Worlds
    • Added support for Lost Worlds (Japanese Romset)
    • RSWAPFW is now installed by default
    • Patch speed increased in 10 % due to a new way of converting the roms

Wednesday, 22. September 1999

  • Take a look at Arcade Rom Heaven for some very interesting MAME WiP news! :-)

  • The MacMAME team released MacMAME v0.36 beta 5 and these are the new features:

    • In sync with DOS beta 5. [Brad Oliver]
    • You can now maneuver through the front-end "info" menu with the left and right arrow keys. [John Butler]
    • You can now reset the average fps counter by hitting Command-A. Toggling the speed throttle on and off will also reset it automatically. [Brad Oliver]
    • Pressing left with the joystick should no longer causes weirdness. [Jeremy Friesen, Brad Oliver]

Tuesday, 21. September 1999

  • This looks real promising: PacDeluxe99 is an emulator for Pacman with revamped graphics (and sound?)! It is not yet released though! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

  • MAMETesters released an update for the MAME bug database! Collected in the database are all known bugs in the games emulated by MAME!

  • MAME Dev member Dan Boris wrote an article about "Emulating Pong" for EmuViews. The interesting article describes why Pong is not simulated yet and gives some insight in the possibe ways on how to simulate the discrete circuits that Pong is made of!

  • GuruChoc posted this link to an arcade cabinet "graveyard" on Arcade Rom Heaven! :-(

Monday, 20. September 1999

  • I finally updated the introduction to SYS2064 (read it on the top of this page) with some more arcade emulation developments during 1998 and 1999! Feel free to contact me if you got some comments!

  • EmuHQ interviewed the NeoGeo game dumper RS! Read it here!

Sunday, 19. September 1999

Saturday, 18. September 1999

  • I just added the new samples for Depth Charge to the samples page!

  • World of Arcades dumped an unknown variant version of the game Bermuda Triangle (SNK)!

  • You can now get the fixfile for MAME v0.36 beta 5 from the fixfiles page, included are fixes for: combasc, contra, depthch, digger, hbarrel, headon2, heiankyo, invds, pulsar, safari, samurai, spacetrk, sspaceat, tranqgun, trojan! Many thanks to Gridle for his help!

  • Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team released MAME v0.36 beta 5! This release is another milestone as MAME now supports 1000 unique romsets, congrats and thanks to the whole MAME team! Click here for the full list of new features and you can get the source update here! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

Friday, 17. September 1999

  • Another day, another ClrMAME release! ;-) Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro beta 3c and this is what he has got to say about the new version: "It seems that you don't like the new zipscanner...because you realize you have many zipfiles which aren't 100% correct. Well...To avoid more confusion I removed some of the new checks. If you now get a bad-central-directory error something really bad happend. (like the archive doesn't have a central directory, etc...). I enabled the internal zip32.dll repair routines, too. Most of the 'old' bad-central-directory' errors were caused by wrong date/timestamp entries. The reason to add the new zipscanner was that zip32.dll can produce errors when trying to do some zipaction on a 'corrupt' file....
    By the way: You can re-activate the advanced zipscanner in the pulldownmenu."

  • Gridle added some more MAME WIP news to the official MAME WIP page!

  • The CPS1 Patch Center released an update for their Forgotten Worlds patch for Callus with the following new features:

    • Fixed the 4 "Bad Command or file name" errors.
    • Fixed the 4 "File not found" errors. 99% of the people were having these 8 errors,weird, in my cpu i didn't receive the errors, but i found the cause and fixed them ;)
    • Cleaned up cps1team.txt fixing some mistypings due to the rush in releasing 0.1 Beta.
    • Added Dip Switches explanation to cps1team.txt
    • Removed some debug code resulting on a performance increase of a 5% - 10%.
    • Fixed a possible bug if the patch is ran more than one time

Thursday, 16. September 1999

  • Simon Sweetman released v1.1 of his nice Gauntlet Screensaver for Windows and these are the main new features: Added Ghosts and Interactive mode! Be sure to take a look!

  • Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro beta 3b which adds the following features:

    • added: internal RAINE support (no more datfiles are needed)
    • changed: zipscanner detects much more bad zipfiles which caused some trouble in earlier versions
    • added: small 'FAQ' in the documentation

Wednesday, 15. September 1999

  • The CPS1 Patch Center released a patch for Callus to enable support for the Forgotten Worlds romset!

  • IvilDed added lots of new screenshots from Impact to his page and is looking for help to buy a new arcade board for Impact, take a look!

  • there are new updates on the MAME WIP page!

  • XRay1 updated the MAME Poster and Flyer Archive with the following: MAME pack #11 is released containing 18 new ones and 21 replacements and the Raine pack #06 is released containing 06 new ones and 01 replacements!

  • If you are a fan of NeoGeo games, go and support Haze's excellent GeoShock!

Monday, 13. September 1999

  • Dennis Piet was busy once again and released StartRaine v0.25.1 with the following features:

    • Added Enable Secret Games option
    • Catches up to Raine 0.25c romcheck output format.
    • Merged romsets support (installed status depends on romcheck status), also good for preventing bad romsets to show up in your installed list.
    • Removed the enable Gerikidan option (not needed anymore for 0.25c)
    • Added support for Marquees. Unzip them in your Marquees\ dir. Small archive available from my website.
    • Corrected Rastan showing Rastan2.png as it's titleshot.

Sunday, 12. September 1999

  • The Ataxx Emulation Resource has been updated with WIP news and screenshots of the MAME driver for this Leland arcade game. Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

  • I updated the Raine page on SYS2064 with pictures of all new supported games and updated the List of Emulated Videogames, feel free to take a look! :-)

  • Roman Scherzer released a new datfile to audit the romsets supported by Raine v0.25c with the latest ClrMAME!

  • Antiriad released Raine v0.25c! Here is the list of new features:

    • 24 new romsets: American Horseshoes, Ark Area, Bobble Bobble, Cachat, Cadash French, Chimera Beast, Daisenpu, Dogyuun, Gekirin Dan, Gun Frontier, Iga Ninjyutsuden, Kageki, Kiki Kai Kai, Knight Boy, Kuri Kinton, Quiz Jinsei Gekijoh, Rastan American, Rastan American (alt), Snow Bros (alt), Super Bobble Bobble, Teki Paki, The Lord of King, The NZ Story (bootleg) and Yuyu no quiz de Gogo.
    Changes from Spindizzy:
    • - Bubble Bobble player 2 fix and gameover sound fix.
    • - Improvements to the M68705 recompiler.
    • - Kiki Kai Kai and Knight Boy!
    • - Added 320x256 mode-x resolution.
    Changes from Antiriad:
    • - Added GUI bg_image option to raine.cfg.
    • - Fixed up priorities in toaplan#2 games (er, hopefully they are right).
    • - Changed a few rom names in cadashit and rastsaga to simplify single-zip merging.
    • - Changed romcheck output and added a -verbose option to the command line.
    • - Fixed sound click at 44100 kHz (is seal bugged?).
    • - Add sound chip data to listinfo output.
    • - Accept 'raine ' on the command line (preferred use is 'raine -game ').
    • - Made pixel double or eagle mode much faster for linear display modes.
    • - Made pixel double or eagle mode only available in linear modes (for now).
    • - Made cheats per game limit 256.
    • - Ripped config file routines from allegro, because the standard allegro ones are too slow for really big cheat files.
    • - Fixed sound problem with some dual YM2203 games.
    • - Added bombjack twin dipswitches, thx mirko.
    • - Fixed music looping in bjt with starscream 0.26.
    • - Replaced a lot of s68000 and mz80 calls with calls to generic cpu routines.
    • - Fixed a bug that could cause darius2d to crash on startup.

  • Pugsy released a new version of his cheat database file for MAME. This version adds cheats for the new games supported by MAME v0.36b4 and it now got cheats for 1611 romsets!

Saturday, 11. September 1999

  • Dumps from Spain was busy again and added a new fix for the Combat School (Konami) graphic-roms and a new romset from Konami: Gang Busters! Thanks Ricardo! :-))

  • Simon Sweetman released v1.0 of his nice Gauntlet Screensaver for Windows! It looks great to see 80+ Gauntlet player sprites running over your screen! :-)

  • Gridle added some more MAME WIP news and screenshots to the official MAME WIP page!

  • Eric Bole-Feysot moved the RomCenter homepage to this location and added lots of new data files for it, be sure to take a look!

Friday, 10. September 1999

  • The official Raine homepage has been updated once again with news about romsets that will be supported in a future version of Raine: "The Lord Of King" (japanese version of Astyanax, Jaleco), Iga Ninjutsu Den (Jaleco), Yuuyu No Quiz de GO!GO! (Taito) and Teki Paki (Toaplan). Thanks to Gerardo Oporto for the news!

  • SYS2064 (and all other sites on Emulation World) will have some downtime in the next days because Emulation World is going to do some server changes which will affect all sites hosted by EW! This shouldn't take that long but if you suddenly can't reach your favorite emulation sites that's the reason!

  • Arcade Roms from Japan released the yet unemulated romset of Konamis "Quarth"!

Thursday, 09. September 1999

  • Roman Scherzer released a new version of his excellent ClrMAME Pro beta 3a which adds he following features:

    • fixed: receiving data from mame-binary fails
    • fixed: 'unneeded fix' doesn't fix files in all cases
    • fixed: weird 'zip errors' with read-only zips
    • fixed: minor GUI and refreshing stuff

Wednesday, 08. September 1999

  • Gridle updated the MAME WIP page with lots of news from the last 10 days!

  • The MAME32 team released the MAME32 v0.36 beta 4! This version was highly anticipated since it is the first official MAME32 release in the v0.36 beta cycle! Thanks to John Hardy (of the great MAME32 Q&A page) for the news!

  • Dennis Piet released StartRaine v0.24.4! New in this release is an option to enable Gekirindan (secret game) and a minor problem with configuring default settings when tabsheet was hidden was fixed!

  • Romlist released a new romset for Gekiri Dan (Taito F3) which is supposed to be supported by Raine! Thanks to Retrogames for these nice news!

    Here is how to enable the support for the romset in Raine v0.24a: Insert this on raine.cfg after you get the release from Romlist:
    [romlist]
    #enable gekirindan
    aracorn_rox_j00 = 67890

Tuesday, 07. September 1999

  • The official Raine homepage has been updated with pictures of three new supported romsets: Gun Frontier (Taito), Knight Boy (variant of KiKi Kai Kai, Taito) and a New Zealand Story Bootleg! Thanks to Gerardo Oporto for the news!

  • Atila of Retrogames was interviewed on the upcoming arcade emulator Impact! Read this interesting interview here!

  • Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro beta3 with the following fixes:

    • fixed: bug in unneeded check (Ooops...big one...)
    • fixed: reenabled support for zipfile-subfolder (2nd try..)
    • fixed: fastscan reports 'incompatibility' after restart
    • fixed: 'show all 0-crcs' box is always unckecked after restart
    • fixed: double newlines in logfile
    • fixed: 'stop' while receiving data doesn't work
    • added: hide or show items in the tree/logfile output
    • added: length fixing of 0-crc ROMs
    • added: 'Select Games' editbox (selecting games by e.g. "pac*")
    • added: statistics can be added to the logfile
    • changed: statistics output
    • changed: lots of GUI related things
    • changed: profiles also save enabled/disabled games
    • changed: mame-binary doesn't have to be on a writeable media

Monday, 06. September 1999

  • Two things that I forgot to mention are that The Guru updated the arcade cabinets picture pack on Arcade Art Museum with 86 new pics and 10 that have been replaced for a total of 850 pics and the fact that you can always download french versions of MacMAME from the official MacMAME homepage!

  • There is a new site like the before mentioned Arcade Art Museum which is devoted to collecting pictures of actual arcade cabinets called Arcade Cabinet Preservation Society! Take a look!

  • MonroeWorld is (sorta) back! Use this url (http://www.keepitretro.com/) to reach MonroeWorld for now until InterNic is finally updated! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

  • The MacMAME team released MacMAME v0.36 beta 4 and these are the new features:

    • In sync with DOS beta 4. [Aaron Giles]
    • Fixed bugs in the PPC 68000, 6809, and Z80 cores which affected new and upcoming games. [Aaron Giles]
    • Turned off the peephole optimizer for Burger Time-class games to work around an optimizer bug. [Brad Oliver]
    • Fixed profiler handling again. [John Butler, Aaron Giles]

Sunday, 05. September 1999

  • Roberto Ventura released JFF - Just For Fun v0.24! New in this version is support for Penguin-Kun Wars and FM sound emulation was added in Atomic Robo Kid, Omega Fighter and Mutant Night!

  • The fixfile for MAME v0.36 beta 4 is now available on the fixfiles page (with fixes for: combasc, enduror, gardia, hcastle, mystston, scontra, thunderx, tsamurai, tturfbl and for all namco system one games)!

  • Dutch recompiled MAME v0.36 beta 4 and fixed a ROM loading error for Ghost Pilots MVS and also corrected the -listinfo output for about 15 or so Namco System 1 sound ROMs, which is needed for some of the available ROM scanners/cleaners. Thanks to Haze and HobbesAtPlay for providing the information needed to fix the source code!

  • Dennis Piet released StartM72 v0.33.8 which adds a lot of new features!

  • Sad news: Stormhunter has to close his site Stormcade! Please read the reason why on his page!

Saturday, 04. September 1999

  • Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team just released MAME v0.36 beta4, the Namco System One release! Click here for the full list of updates! Binary and Source are finally up and I am working on a fixfile which will be added tomorrow!

  • Kinox added a new interview with Antiriad, the mastermind behind Raine! The also added interviews with Gridle (the maintainer of the official MAME homepage) and J-Rom from Arcade Roms from Japan during the last three weeks! All three interviews are great reads, take a look!

  • I am back from a very great holiday and it seems like I've got a lot to catch up, here we go! I still got tons of mails to answer, please be patient and thanks for your support! Thanks to Retrogames for their excellent newsarchive and to Pete (PC Arcade) and Tormod for their help! :-))

  • The most obvious release I missed is MAME v0.36 beta 3! Thanks to the whole MAME team for another great release which adds Parodius from Konami, one of the best shoot'em ups I ever played! Click here for the list of new features and be sure to download the fixfile for this release from the fixfiles page (Please let me know if I missed any fixes)! The Macintosh port of MAME v0.36 beta 3 was updated, too. The next MAME beta looks very promising, too, just take a look at the news from the excellent Arcade Rom Heaven and the official MAME WIP page!

  • Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro beta 2a, his excellent MAME auditor program which is now two years old, congrats Roman! He also moved the ClrMAME homepage to a brandnew and very promising website called MAMEWorld, which is run by Zan, KillerClown and RocLobsta. Be sure to take a look!

  • The official Raine homepage not only got a new design but announced another batch of new games supported by an upcoming version of Raine, two of them are prototype games which never appeared in an arcade: KikiKaiKai (Taito), Chimera Beat (Jaleco, prototype), American Horseshoes (Taito), Cachat (Taito, prototype) and Dogyuun (Toaplan)!

  • The romdumpers were very busy in the last three weeks: Arcade Roms from Japan released the following arcade roms: Hexion, Hot Chase, Parodius, Roller Games, Super Contra and Surprise Attack (all from Konami) and Primella (Dooyong) as well as a couple of fixes for other romsets! My friend Ricardo from Dumps from Spain released a fix for a Combat School romset (Konami)! And last but not least, Naz released a couple of romsets and flyers on his page, too!

  • IvilDed reports some news about the two highly anticipated new arcade emulators on his homepage: Both emulators are getting better and better: Impact added support for Street Fighter EX2+ and added complete sound emulation, both sound effects and Q-Sound music! The Sega System 32 emulator had the following development: "Sprites have been greatly improved, text palette is now correct, background layers and scrolling has been implemented and very preliminary Super Visual Football support has been added"! IvilDed, all the best to you, get well soon!!

  • NeoGeo news: RS dumped and released one of the last missing NeoGeo games: Pleasure Goal (aka Futsal) and the following games were redumped in MVS format: 2020 Baseball, Art of Fighting, Ghost Pilots! It looks like there is at least one more NeoGeo game still under development: Prehistoric Isle 2!

  • Dennis Piet released StartRaine v0.24.3 which adds support for flyers which you can get from the Flyer and Poster Archive, XRay1 released a new version of the flyer archive for MAME, too: v3.6: 63 flyers are added, 31 are replaced for a total of 823 flyers!

  • Pugsy released a new version of his cheat database for MAME which is now up-to-date for MAME v0.36b3!

  • BTribble started a new webpage about unemulated arcade games and why they are currently unemulated! Be sure to take a look!

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August 1999

Friday, 13. August 1999

  • Here are some sad news: SYS2064 won't be updated for three weeks starting today! I am going on a much needed vacation and the page will be back in full swing on September, 4th! You can do me a favor though: please mail me anything interesting that happens during these three weeks. That way I won't miss anything when I am back and "catching up" won't take that much time! Thanks for your support and I hope to see you all early September!

Thursday, 12. August 1999

  • The MAME WIP page got another huge update including screenshots of a favorite game of mine: "Parodius" (Konami, 1990)!

  • I finally added all new games supported by Raine v0.24a and MAME v0.36b2 to the List of Emulated Arcade Games and added pictures of the supported games by Raine v0.24a to the Raine page!

  • You can download the updated MAME cheat datfile by Pugsy from the utilities page!

Wednesday, 11. August 1999

  • The MacMAME team release MacMAME v0.36 beta 2 and these are the new features:

    • In sync with DOS beta 2. [Brad Oliver, Aaron Giles]
    • All of the bugs reported with the new keyboard code and event handling in beta 1 should be resolved now. [Aaron Giles]
    • Rewrote the joystick code to match the new MAME specs, similar to what happened with the keyboard code in beta 1. The upshot is that MacMAME now supports a total of 16 joysticks with 12 buttons apiece. A similar rewrite will take place in an upcoming beta for the analog controls. [Brad Oliver]
    • Added a new option to the front-end to help identify the contents of a ROM .zip file. [John Butler]

  • You can see news and some new screenshots of the System32 emulator on ShinobiZ's Homepage! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

  • Dennis Piet released StartRaine v0.24.2a with support for the new version of Raine (v0.24a) and these are the new features:

    • Sorting an all columns in the gamelist (ascending/descending).
    • Cheat-available detection.
    • Zipdate column (to sort in download-order).
    • Fixed a memoryleak in the pcx-decoding component (not mine).
    • User selectable Font + Color (text and background) for gamelist.
    • Auto default-raine.cfg generation when started for the first time.

Tuesday, 10. August 1999

  • Gridle added new MAME WIP news to the MAME WIP page including screenshots of a nice looking game by Atari: "Off the Wall"!

  • Just a minor note to the guys running the official Impact webpage: In your gallery section you need to click on the screenshots on the RIGHT to go to the detailed picture sections of the supported games as there are no screenshots on the LEFT to click on! ;-)

Monday, 09. August 1999

  • A couple of days ago Retrogames posted some screenshots from Street Fighter EX 2 running on a new emulator called Impact and now there is an official webpage for the emulator!

  • You can download the new MAME samples (Donkey Kong Jr., Mario Bros., Q*Bert and Reactor) from my Samples page!

  • Some of the staffers of Emulators Unlimited opened a new webpage called EmuGaming which looks really promising. One of the first things that's already up is a huge section on RetroFX with a review and an interview with the RetroFX guys by fixo!

  • It's nice to see that Darkmazda is back on DMD!

Sunday, 08. August 1999

  • I just added three Fixfiles for the great MAME v0.36 beta 2 to the Fixfiles Page, please let me know if I missed any!

  • Eric Bole-Feysot released a new version of his rom audit utility Rom Center v1.60! Please take a look at the official homepage for news on the release and the file!

  • Nicola Salmoria released MAME v0.36 beta 2 which adds (amoung others) support for some classic games by Konami like The Simpsons and Aliens, click here for the full list of updates! Source and Binary file are now up on the MAME page, thanks to the official MAME page for the Binary!

  • The Guru updated the Arcade Art Museum which now features pictures of 774 arcade cabinets!

  • I have been very busy yesterday but it's been a slow day too!

Friday, 06. August 1999

  • EmuViews added a preview of the first RetroFX release: the revamped Ghost'n Goblins!

Thursday, 05. August 1999

  • Big thanks for the huge feedback regarding the second birthday of SYS2064, thanks for every mail you sent and to every siteop who mentioned the anniversary on their website! :-)

  • Arcade Roms from Japan has been busy again and dumped three arcade games: "Mirai Ninja" (Namco), "Full Throttle" (Taito), "Yuuyu no Quiz de Go!Go! (Taito)" !

  • *Update*: Roman Scherzer created a dat-file for ClrMAME v1.40 to audit the romsets for Raine v0.24a! The zipfile contains two different datfiles: one for roms in short filenames (8.3 format) and one for long filenames. Get the datfile from the utilities page and be sure to read the "howto.txt" file!!

  • *Update*: Another fixfile update, Clyde found another fixfile compiled by me (on Jan, 7th 99) while searching on his harddisc! This file was for MAME v0.35 beta 1 and includes fixes for: galagabl, galaga, btime, kidniki, slyspy, gallag and ldrun! This should really be the first fixfile and it is now up on the fixfiles page! Thanks Clyde!

  • I just read on Emulation Camp that Charles Doty programmed a demo running on Sega System 16 hardware (which is emulated by the System16 emu and MAME). In the archive you'll find the sources and some tools which should help you programming some small demos on that hardware! On Charles' page there is another demo: a Tetris clone running on Vanguard hardware by Norbert Kehrer!

Wednesday, 04. August 1999

SYS2064 celebrates its second birthday today!

  • Two years, has it really been that long? Wow! I'd like to take the time to thank all of you for supporting SYS2064 for so long - you guys rock! Thank you for visiting, for the nice mails I got from people all over the world (hint: mail me! ;-), for your help in general (eg. for technical stuff, news reports or utilities to add to the site) and of course big thanks to the staff of Emulation World for all of their hard work, EW is simply the best host you can wish for!!

    I'd like to end this little rant by giving major thanks to every emulator programmer for their hard work, thank you very much!

  • Another big update on the MAME WIP page with lots of nice looking screenshots! :-)

  • Thanks to the great help of David G., Clyde (zaxuqxul), Levent and Blackhole the three fixfiles for MAME v0.35 beta 2 are now back up on SYS2064 on the fixfiles page! To be honest I did not expect that anybody still got these files but thankfully you proved me wrong!

  • Dennis Piet released StartRaine v0.24.1 with support for the new version of Raine (v0.24a) and a lot of new features!

  • Naz dumped another currently unemulated arcade rom: "Guardians of the 'Hood" (Atari, 1992)!

Tuesday, 03. August 1999

  • I have got another request! Tristan pointed out that I started doing fixfiles for MAME with v0.35 beta 2 and not beta 3 as I thought all the time. I'd like to add the three fixfiles for v0.35b2 to the fixfiles page but unfortunately I don't have them anymore. Please take a look if you still got these files lying on your hdd somewhere and please contact me:

    • fixfile1.zip - Alien Syndrome, Aurail, Golden Axe, Passing Shot (bootleg) and Shinobi
    • fixfile2.zip - Altered Beast, Galivan and Sinistar
    • fixfile3.zip - Cook Race, Cosmica, Fax, Gravitar, Jack, Mariner, Main Event, Monster Bash and Popeye!

Monday, 02. August 1999

  • You should be able to get "Master of Syougi" now from mirrors at GeoShock! Thanks to Brian Troha for the news!

  • The Ultimate patchers released a new version of their cheat database for MAME. It is now called mnf - MAME Neo-Free cheat database v1.00 which is up to date for MAME v0.35 beta 1! You can as always get it from the utilities page!

  • Romlist dumped "Salamander 2" from Konami!

Sunday, 01. August 1999

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July 1999

Saturday, 31. July 1999

  • I am still looking for improvements for SYS2064, please state your opinion on the messageboard!

  • A new NeoGeo game has been dumped by RS: "Master of Syougi"! You can see some screenshots of it at his homepage and it should be released soon!

Friday, 30. July 1999

  • *Update*: More Raine news on the official Raine homepage: In addition to the two japanese games that were added: "Quiz H.Q." (Taito, 1990) and "Quiz Torimonochou" (Taito, 1990), there are two more announced games: "Cadash Japanese" (Taito) and "Balloon Brothers" (Seta/Taito)! Thanks to Gerardo Oporto for the news!

  • Thanks to Carl-Henrik, these are the new features of the latest version of Shark:

    • There is a new game, Snow Bros, same romset as raine and mame.
    • Twin Cobra and Flying Shark have new screenmodes (bigger play area) if you edit the shark.ini file and set widescreen to on.
    • You can also do recordings of your play by enabling that option in shark.ini.
    • There is a better structured manual in the archive as well.

  • Arcade Roms from Japan dumped another two arcade games: "Dogyuun!" (Toaplan), "Quiz HQ" (Taito)!

  • Carl-Henrik Skårstedt and Magnus Danielsson released a new version of Shark v3.1! Support has been added for Snow Bros. and there are numerous fixes! ;-)

Thursday, 29. July 1999

  • Major update on the MAME WIP page! The WIP news of the last three weeks were added so take a look! Thanks to Gerardo Oporto and Brian Troha for the news!

  • Retro FX opened their webpage yesterday! RetroFX is a group of people led by Dirk Stevens who try to improve old (emulated) arcade games with new graphics, sounds and effects! EmuViews got a screenshot of the "new" Ghosts'n Goblins in the new Rumor Mill which looks really impressive!

Wednesday, 28. July 1999

  • The official Raine homepage has been updated with screenshots of "64th Street (Japan)" and "Darius 2 (2 screen version)" supported by Raine!

  • *Update*: Arcade Roms from Japan has been very busy and dumped another batch of arcade games: "Darius 2 (2 screen version)" (Taito), "Cisco Heat" (Jaleco), "Gekitsui Oh" and "Counter Steer" (both from Data East)!

  • EmuViews interviewed the Raine team Richard and Mario! You should take a look!

  • I added a lot of screenshots of emulated games to the various emulator pages on SYS2064 and restructured even more things "behind the scenes". I am currently working on an update of the links page, too, so you can send me unique links that should be added to the page.

Tuesday, 27. July 1999

Monday, 26. July 1999

  • I am looking for improvements for SYS2064, please state your opinion on the messageboard!

  • Arcade Roms from Japan dumped three japanese namco System One games: "Beraboh Man", "Bakutotsu KijuuTei" and "Pistol Daimyo"!

  • Thanks to everybody who offered the missing Gaplus emulator to me, I was impressed how many of you offered help, thanks!! The emulator is finally back up on SYS2064! :-)

Sunday, 25. July 1999

  • Nobody seems to have noticed that Paul Kahler and Kurt Mahan released a new version of their Cinematronics emulator some weeks ago! This is new according to the homepage: "New Version for '99 The newest version supports all Black and White Cinematronics vector games except Speed Freak - sorry, there is some problem with it." Thanks to Archaic Ruins for the news!

  • I have got a request: during the site move I lost the final version of JROKs single game emulator for Gaplus (v1.4)! If someone of you still got this emulator onhis hardrive, please contact me!

  • I just read on Zophar's Domain that Archaic Ruins moved back to this address: http://archaic-ruins.parodius.com/!

Saturday, 24. July 1999

  • Thanks to the great help and work of Brian of EmulationWorld, SYS2064 now has got a messageboard, too! I know that there are tons of emulation messageboards around but I hope that you will find this board useful, too! The topic of the board is everything arcade releated (not just limited to emulation topics), so you can discuss every arcade emulator and arcade game here, but please don't request roms there. Have fun with the board! :-))

  • Wow!!! Blood finally released a new version of my favorite MAME front-end FeMAME! The new version is v2.0 beta 5 and supports tons of new stuff to be up-to-date for MAME v0.36 beta 1! Thanks to Retrogames for these great news!

Friday, 23. July 1999

  • Smf just released a new version of ReDump (v1.9) which adds support for Andro Dunos. ReDump is a utility to convert MGD2 NeoGeo game dumps tothe MVS format!

  • There is now an official Raine messageboard, take a look at it here and I will open a new messageboard focusing on overall arcade emulation related stuff soon, too! Thanks to Arcade Rom Heaven for the news about the Raine board and tons of thanks to Brian and Lev of Emulation World for their great work behind the scenes!!!

  • Xray1 updated the MAME Flyer and Poster Archive to v3.5! 40 flyers are added, 24 are replaced for a total of 760 flyers.

  • RS and GeoShock released another NeoGeo MVS redump: "Andro Dunos", let's hope that smf sends me a new version of ReDump soon! :-)

  • I added the the new games supported by MAME v0.36b1 and Shark v3.1 to the list of emulated arcade games!

Thursday, 22. July 1999

  • Brad Oliver released MacMAME v0.36 beta 1! New in this version is:

    • In sync with DOS beta 1. [Aaron Giles]
    • Upgraded projects to CodeWarrior Pro 5. This fixes many (but not all) optimization bugs. [Aaron Giles]
    • Rewrote keyboard handling to MAME's new specifications. The only change that should be noticeable is that the on-screen display no longer requires you to hold the Command key down while pressing the tilde. If this is a problem, the default key settings can now be changed in the setup menu. [Aaron Giles]
    • Cleaned up the frontend dialog, sped up sorting significantly, and changed to scan for ROMs during the warning dialog instead of after you hit 'OK'. [Aaron Giles]
    • Added new option for specially sorting "The" at the beginning of a descriptive game name. [Brad Oliver]
    • Added separate 68010 core for games that use 68010-specific features. [Aaron Giles]
    • Extensively reworked the core event handling and program flow code; it's more readable, but there may be some bugs lurking. [Aaron Giles]
    • Also, details of a bug in the CW Pro 5 optimizer are in the 0.36b1 source archive, in the file "Build Issues". The bug is reproducible and has been submitted to Metrowerks.

  • Some more great news for all Mac users: JoseQ reports in his Rumor Mill today that a Mac port of Raine is in the works! Read the whole newsbit on EmuViews!

Wednesday, 21. July 1999

  • I added screenshots of the supported games by JFF to the JFF page, too!

  • Thanks to the new screen capture feature of Shark v3.1, I made new screenshots of all supported games and added Demon's World screenshots, too! Click here for the Shark page or here to go directly to the screenshots page! :-)

  • I added updated FAQs of "Puzzle Bobble" and "Puzzle Bobble 2" to the NeoGeo FAQ page!

  • Just for the records: KiKi KaiKai is *not* officially supported by Shark v3.1, it got some major sprite problems in the emulation and Carl forgot to disable it for the release!

Tuesday, 20. July 1999

  • And here is Fixfile 2 for MAME v0.36 beta 1 with fixes for: "kuniokub, megazone, nrallyx, pang, shootout and wbml"! Many thanks to TonyD and Dutch for the help!

Monday, 19. July 1999

  • I added Fixfile 1 for MAME v0.36 beta 1 with fixes for: "alpine, altbeast, bioatack, bosco, elevator, frontlin, goldnaxe, hwchamp, junglek, rallyx, sfposeid, spaceskr, timetunl, tinstar, waterski and wwestern" to the Fixfiles page!

  • Nicola Salmoria released MAME v0.36 beta 1! This huge release adds tons of new games which you can see here! For the new roms I suggest you visit the great Arcade Rom Heaven and I will compile fixfiles later today. Thanks to Emuviews for the binary!

  • Carl-Henrik Skårstedt and Magnus Danielsson released Shark v3.1! Support has been added for Demon's World and these are the new features straight from Carl's mail:

    • save snapshots by pressing f12
    • new version number (3.1)
    • tweaked stuff in ym3812 emulation
    • more code
    • no cheat necessary for savegame and autofire
    • latest starscream (fixes lots of old bugs)
    • demons world (notice the absence of holes)
    • bigger file
    • neo-geo free for smaller file size (that's not really new though)
    • i can't be bothered remembering all friggin new stuff!

  • Are you too aching for some Sparcade news? Then read this message by Dave Spicer on the Sparcade Message Board in which he announces some new features of Sparcade!

Sunday, 18. July 1999

  • The CPS1 patcher guys released another patch, this time you can patch Muscle Bomber Duo's Country/Language Settings (ETC to USA / JAPAN / ASIA / HISPANIC)! I did not take a look at this yet.

  • Naz dumped two arcaderoms: V-Ball and Time Killers, his homepage seems to be down right now though!

Saturday, 17. July 1999

  • Smf released a new version of ReDump (v1.8), his utility to convert NeoGeo mgd2 dumps to MVS format! New is support for Fatal Fury but there is a catch: "Unfortunately the new ffry_m1.rom is different from the converted one" - I suggest that you convert your MGD2 dumps and wait which version of the m1 rom will be supported by MAME. If it is not the one created by ReDump, I will add the other one in an upcoming fixfile!

  • The official Raine homepage has been updated with screenshots of Palamedes (Taito, 1990) running on Raine!

  • The CPS1 patch team released a language patch to (partially) translate the japanese rom Pnickies to english! I did not test it yet though!

  • NeoLight released the MVS redump of the NeoGeo game "Fatal Fury"! Get it from one of their mirrors or do as I do and wait for smf to update ReDump to support it!

  • Even if the offcial MAME WIP page is not updated right now you can get your fix of news. In addition to the daily MAME WIP updates from Arcade Rom Heaven, you can read some more MAME WIP news on Retrogames, too! :-)

  • The homepage of Roman Scherzer's excellent MAME util ClrMAME moved: http://titan.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~scherzer!

Friday, 16. July 1999

  • Smf released ReDump v1.7 with support for Thrash Rally, please get it from the utilities page! This great utility converts your MGD2 NeoGeo romdumps to MVS style romdumps which saves you a lot of re-downloading!

  • I added a new version of the WakuWaku 7 FAQ to the NeoGeo FAQs page!

Thursday, 15. July 1999

  • Here is the latest version of the cheat.dat file from the Ultimate Patchers (v8.5E) with support for MAME v0.35 final!

  • It looks like the NeoGeo game Thrash Rally has been redumped in MVS format, I hope that smf will release a new version of ReDump soon! :-)

  • A new NeoGeo related webpage called Gigapower did a short interview with Anders and Janne of NeoRAGE fame! Read it here and thanks to EmuViews for the news.

Wednesday, 14. July 1999

  • Do you want some MAME WIP news even if the official WIP page is not updated right now? Head over to Arcade Rom Heaven and take a look for yourself!

  • I found a great website called Octavian with playing guides for some arcade games among them my alltime favorite arcade game: Black Tiger!

  • TmB of EmuVerse announced that he held another "Gathering of Emu Authors" last weekend and is now busy tidying the IRClog for html use! If you remember the first two gatherings you will definately don't want to miss this third event!

Tuesday, 13. July 1999

  • I added a new version of the Puzzle Bobble 2 FAQ to the NeoGeo FAQs page!

  • Marc Vielfaure released a french translation of MacMAME v0.35 final which is and will always be hosted on the official MacMAME page!

  • An unofficial version of MAME32 has been released today with support for Netplay enabled! The MAMENet page has been updated with their thoughts on this release and I won't add it to SYS2064 because it is not an official version. Thanks to John (of the MAME32 Q&A page) for the news!

  • IvilDed updated his page with new screenshots of the Sega System 32 emulator and they are looking for donations to buy some System32 boards!

Monday, 12. July 1999

  • The MAME32 team released MAME32 v0.35 fixed final which is now in sync with the DOS port! Thanks to John of the MAME32 Q&A department for the news!

  • The Raine homepage has been updated with pictures of "Extermination" (World Games/Taito, 1987) and "Grand Cross Pinball" (Excellent System Ltd., 1994)!

Sunday, 11. July 1999

  • ShinobiZ redesigned the System16 homepage and moved the focus of the site away from emulation to Sega arcade hardware in general!

  • Are you interested in WIP news of MAME32, the Win9x port of MAME? I suggest that you check the MAME32 Q&A department from time to time to read about the development of MAME32!

  • I opened a new page which contains all fixfiles I compiled for MAME since v0.35b3!

Saturday, 10. July 1999

  • The latest edition of the online radio show Back in Time features an interview with Larry Bank (HiVE)!

  • Martin S. interviewed Dave Theurer (author of Missile Command, Tempest,...)! Although this interview is two years old, I recommend reading it here! Thanks to Brians Coin-Op History Archive for the news!

Friday, 09. July 1999

  • Smf released a new version of ReDump (v1.6), his utility to convert NeoGeo mgd2 dumps to MVS format! New is support for Alpha Mission 2 / ASO2: Last Guardian!

  • GeoShock released the MVS dump of the NeoGeo game Alpha Mission 2 / ASO2: Last Guardian!

Thursday, 08. July 1999

Wednesday, 07. July 1999

  • Tormod Tjaberg released a "bubble bobble sound patch" for MAME final version 0.35! This sound patch will give you 100% accurate sound in Bubble Bobble + clones using samples from the arcade machine. It will also let you play Bobble Bobble with 60 FPS + sound on a P133 since most of the sound CPU's are not emulated. You can download the source patch and the needed Bubble Bobble samples from Tormod's page but you need to compile your own version since Tormod doesn't distribute any binary files. If you need help comiling MAME be sure to visit Zan's MAME page!

  • One of the new pages that I wanted to create in the last months is now finally open: a page with FAQs for NeoGeo games! These FAQs were gathered from all over the internet but I guess that most of them come from GameFAQs.com, which is a great ressource for game related FAQs in general. The page is still in its infancy so if you got suggestions or you got better or newer FAQs then the ones listed here or if you got FAQs which are not on this page yet, please contact me! Thanks to everybody who took the time to write these excellent FAQs!

  • Brad Oliver released MacMAME v0.35 fixed final! This is the list of new features:

    • In sync with DOS 0.35 final + fixes. [Brad Oliver]
    • Fixed some misc issues with InputSprocket: it would not work if you started MacMAME via a drag-n-drop, and it would fail to find mice the first time you clicked on the Configure button. [Brad Oliver]
    • Made the OpenGL and RAVE failure error messages a little clearer. [Brad Oliver]

  • Chris Mullin released v10.2a of his excellent NeoGeoFAQ! Don't miss it!

Tuesday, 06. July 1999

  • I added MAME v0.35 fixed final to the MAME page which is official after all! :-) Thanks to Retrogames for the news! These are the new fixes:

    • btimem and caractn
    • missile command with 256x224_hor = no
    • scanlines not being used when 400x300 VESA mode available
    • sfzch buttons
    • ringking color PROMs

  • Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME v1.40! The new features of this excellent MAME utility are:

    • support for new "bad dumps" (complemented crcs) * rebuilding, wrong checksum check and name check can recognize such roms
    • reporting errors in -listinfo: (* Double Foldername * Double Description * This IS NOT A Parent * This IS NOT A Clone * Parent - Clone Conflict) I think I will add some more tests in the future. This feature can be enabled/disabled. (Pulldown-Menu)
    • you can load a datfile (-listinfo output) instead of getting the needed information from mame.exe. (So you can use modified -listinfo outputs) This feature can be enabled/disabled. (Pulldown-Menu)

Monday, 05. July 1999

  • Retrogames added a new version of MAME v0.35final to their page which fixes a few bugs! I don't know if this is an official version so if you are interested in the file, please get it from Retrogames for now!

  • Smf send me a new version of ReDump (v1.5), his utility to convert NeoGeo mgd2 dumps to MVS format! New is support for World Heroes and for correct filesizes in older mgd2 sets!

  • Here is Fixfile 1 for MAME v0.35 final! Included are fixes for: Act Fancer, various Arkanoid sets, Athena, Battle of Atlantis, Commando (Sega), Elevator Action, Front Line, Pon Poko, Star Castle and Tin Star!

  • Are you a bit confused with the rom changes and new additions of MAME v0.35 final? Read the latest rom-report by Dutch, which helps clearing some things up!

  • RomList is back!!! And they dumped P47Aces (Jaleco) to celebrate! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

  • Did you see yesterdays MAME v0.35 final release? The new samples (Rip Off, Solar Quest, Space Wars and Star Castle) are now on the samples page and I will release a fixfile later!

Sunday, 04. July 1999

  • Nicola Salmoria released MAME v0.35 final! New in this version is one new game: Macho Mouse and a couple of new clones! A new licence for MAME is included in the readme.txt, be sure to read the passage for derivative works!

  • Naz dumped the arcade roms of Virtua Racing (Sega), please note that the romset is not emulated right now. Thanks to Retrogames for the news!

  • Slow day so far for arcade emulation...why don't you take a look at some great Gameboy sites for now: Subport, GB7.org and GBEmu France? :-)

Saturday, 03. July 1999

  • Pugsy released a new version of his cheat database for MAME, grab it from the utilities page!

  • Roberto Ventura released JFF - Just For Fun v0.23 with support for three new games: Argus, Omega Fighter and Roller Aces! The rompage will hopefully be back in a couple of days (keep your fingers crossed and keep webspace coming ;) and you can get the new romsets from Emulatronia!

  • Emulation Never Dies (E.N.D.) is back up on a new location: http://end.tsx.org! Good luck FnM!

  • NeoLight released the MVS redump of the NeoGeo game: World Heroes.

  • The MAME Action Replay page is hosting a tournament in which you have to play some MAME games and submit replay files to them! Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

  • Gridle updated the MAME WIP page with tons of news from the last 9! days!

  • I finally updated the List of Emulated Videogames, added all Variants/Bootlegs with unique names and split the list in three pages! Please take a look and be sure to let me know if you find any errors! :-)

Friday, 02. July 1999

  • EmuCamp reports that Raine is being ported to Windows using DirectX! The port is very preliminary though. read the whole newsbit on EmuCamp!

  • Dutch released a file to fix the c2 rom in Metal Slug X and smf wrote a program (ReDump v1.3) to convert 10 MGD2 NeoGeo game dumps to MVS format! Thanks you guys for the programs! :-)

  • One of my favorite emulation websites: Emulation Never Dies (E.N.D.) is down for the moment due to server problems! I'll notify you when it is back up!

  • The official Raine hompage has been updated with news and screenshots of two new supported games: Champion Wrestler (Taito, 1989) and Knuckle Bash (Toaplan, 1993)!

Thursday, 01. July 1999

  • Brian Deuel released an updated history database for the latest release candidates of MAME v0.35 and the upcoming v0.35 final! Get it from the utilities page!

  • Ending some weeks of silence, the Ultimate Patchers released v8.4B of their Cheat Database for MAME with cheats for the new supported games of the two release candidates of MAME v0.35! Get it from the utilities page! Thanks to Steph for the news!

  • Xray1 released v3.4 of the MAME Flyer and Poster Archive! This update adds 20 and replaces 19 flyers for a total of 720 flyers!


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